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'Ikonar. Archival Constellations' contains a large number of materials by Josef KOUDELKA from the years 1960 to 2012 as well as important series from his photographic work together with seven thematic constellations derived from the logic of his archive.

'Labour book. 2014-2015' by Ukrainian photographer Kirill GOLVCHENKO is to be understood as a criticism of the economic situation in his home country. Against the background of the original document of his father, he shows the true situation of pensioners

'The Disappeared' by ambitous photo book editor contains portraits of people who disappeared in Argentina. It is a political bond that wants to keep the memory of these people alive. Printed on thin paper, it is primarily an inexpensive photo book item.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20,5 x 26,5 cm., 120 pp. + 40 pp. booklet, English, Ltd. to 300 copies

The Anti-War book 'Kriegsfibel' (War primer) by Bertolt Brecht and Ruth Berlau processes press photos from the Second World War. Images of machines and gruesome scenes were given new captions, socialist-realist epigrams to give the scenes a primal meaning

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20 x 23,5 x 1,5 cm., 156 pp., 70 color ills., text language: English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued) WITH PRINT!

'Public Matters' by documentary photographer Janet DELANEY gathers images from sunny Reagan-era San Francisco, capturing the spirit of protests & parades, and people shaken by the turn to conservative government as their 1960s demands now came to a halt.

The out of print photo book 'Outposts. Kandahar Province' by Irish magnum photographer Donovan WYLIE shows color photographs of the Forward Operating Bases that were set up in the Afghan province of Kandahar to support the ISAF mission.

In 'Unresolved' Meinrad SCHADE examines how conflicts also show themselves in everyday life. The series, made in Israel & Palestine, is the continuation of his long-term project 'Krieg ohne Krieg' documenting landscapes and people in the grip of conflicts

Catalan photographer Txema SALVANS' keen view of contemporary Spanish society. In the photo book 'My Kingdom' he combines black and white photos with quotes from the political rhetoric of the former King of Spain. This methodology makes emotions visible.

Pb., 21,5 x 28,5 x 2 cm., unpaginated, b/w ills, text language: English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 24 cm., 96 pp., 55 color ills., English

The out-of-print photo and text volume 'Fotoreportagen 1956-1965' on the work of Dirk ALVERMANN contains in addition to the black and white photographs an excellent article on his photo books penned by the photo book connoisseur Thomas Wiegand.

HC (flexicover), 24 x 33 cm., 548 pp., 283 color & 186 b/w ills., text language: English

Slipcased SC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 42 cm. (+ 15 x 22 cm.), 64 pp. with 32 color ills. (+ 120 pp. with 101 tweets), text language: English, Ltd. to 500 copies

'Invasion Prague 68' by Joseph KOUDELKA documents the invasion of Czechoslovakia by five Warsaw Pact countries at that time. Compiled from archive material on the 40th anniversary, it makes the atmosphere of those heroic days of Prague tangible again.

The last part of an unintended trilogy on the lives of refugees and migrants. 'Rooted' returns to a phenomenon that was already noted in 'Ville de Calais': the many refugee camp residents who find hope, consolation and dignity in nurturing a few plants.

This catalog volume of the work of Swedish artist duo Klara KÄLLSTRÖM & Thobias FÄLDT between 2011 and 2021 invites us to critically consider the prevailing narratives about today's world and how photography is used in the creation of these narratives.

The volume 'The Polar Silk Road' by Gregor SAILER deals with the economic use of the Arctic regions as well as territorial claims of the riparian states. The consequences are geopolitical tensions and expansion of military structures and research stations

HC with dust jacket, 21,5 x 28 cm., 112 pp., 57 b/w ills., Chinese/English, Ltd. to 600 numbered copies

Out-of-print 'Moments in History' focuses on those works Margaret BOURKE-WHITE made in the 1930s and 40s in Czechia, Germany, Italy, the Soviet Union as well as in the UK. It shows photographs and excerpts from letters as well as publications in magazines

This publication shows black & white protest photos from the 1960s in Japan. 'Agitators', however, is a more modern publication format of older photographic material, in which the photographer is involved. Kazuo KITAI played a decisive role in the design.

Reissue of nearly-thirty-years-out-of-print volume. 'Rich and Poor' by Jim GOLDBERG builds upon the classic combination of photographs & handwriting and adds a surplus of vintage material & contemporary photos that have never been published or exhibited.

Out-of-print artist's book, 'Lange Weile' by Tina BARA, contains b/w-mages taken between 1983 and 1989 in East Berlin, the old GDR and other travels. This visual diary captures a moment right before the collapse of an entire political & ideological system

Gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), etwa. 28 x 24 cm., 180 S., 86 S/W-Aufnahmen, deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

With 'Silent River', Eugenia MAXIMOVA addresses the silence surrounding the journalist Victoria Marinova, who was brutally murdered in 2018. Her violent death throws a harsh spotlight on widespread corruption and unsafe working conditions for journalists.

Based on the federal popular initiative 'Against Mass Immigration', the photo book 'How to secure a Country' by migrant Salvatore VITALE explores where the Swiss need for security originates from and how it became an essential part of their culture.

Open bound pb. (no dust jacket, as issued) 19,5 x 25 x 1,5 cm., 120 pp., b/w & color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 800 copies

In his out-of-print book 'Legitimacy of Landscape' Yaakov ISRAEL explors the Arab, Bedouin & Druze villages in Israel ( Palestine. It follows in the footsteps of the in the Holy Land in the 19th century active photographers Félix BONFILS & Francis FRITH.

'Nová Evropa' by Christian KASNERS deals with the society of Czech Republic, which oscillates between the idea of a united Europe and anti-European populism. On billboards the photographer searches for manifestations of the ideological & political ideas.

SC, 23 x 29 cm., 216 pp., highly illustrated in color, English

Pb. with dust jacket (as poster), 21 x 27,5 x 3 cm., 320 pp., 1800 gr., text language: English

Reissue of the original volume from 1971. 'Pornography' by Klaus STAECK is an irritating panopticon of everyday violence, a total work of art, offensive in many senses of the word and could hardly be more topical as an artist's manifesto against violence.

Out-of-print photography book 'Father Figure. Exploring Alternate Notions of Black Fatherhood' by US photographer Zun LEE explores issues of identity and representation, particularly how African-American men and fathers are represented in popular culture.

This reissue of 'Tulsa' by American photographer Larry CLARK contains raw, haunting images from 1963, 1968 as well as 1971, documenting a youth that gradually destroyed itself. The b/w photos are as moving and disturbing today as when they first appeared.

'Geschlossene Gesellschaften' by Tomas van HOUTRYVE, illustrates the difference between promising communist theory and lived practice. For this purpose, he traveled to countries where the communist party remained in power after the end of the Cold War.

The photo volume 'War Primer 2' by Adam BROOMBERG & Oliver CHANARAIN is the first English-language version of Bertolt Brecht's remarkable 1955 book 'Kriegsfibel' (War Primer). Today, in 'Fake News' times, it explores the power of images to create history.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 18,5 cm., 96 pp., 77 duotone b/w ills., bilingual text: French / English

Loose-leaf publication in a metallic gold bag, 30,5 x 38 x 1 cm., 40 pp., color ills.,

2nd print run, pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 14 x 21 x 0,5 cm., 120 pp., 61 b/w ills., no text, Ltd. to 50 copies

The volume 'Chronicle' features photos by Sergiy LEBEDYNSKYY & Vladyslav KRASNOSHCHK taken in the Ukraine between 2010 and 2015. The scenes at the front-line Kharkiv, the revolutionary Kiev, Donetsk and Lugansk regions determinated the future of Ukraine.

'Einheit, Arbeit, Wachsamkeit. The GDR in Mozambique' by Malte WANDEL is about African workers who lived in the GDR until German reunification. Many live in poverty, because the money withheld from their wages, intended for their pensions, has disappeared

The special edition of self published photo volume 'Wet City / Islak Kent' by turkish photographer Yusuf Murat SEN comes in a special box including a numbered & signed copy plus one limited edition fine art print. This edition box is limited to 100 copies

The topic in 'Embed in Egypt' is the Arab Spring in Egypt. Young Turkish photographer tells the complex everyday life against the background of the escalating historical development. The diary-like volume was on the shortlist of the First Book Award 2014.

Cloth spined Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 22 x 27 x 2 cm., 160 pp., color ills., English, Ltd. to 750 copies

Ringbinded carton, 19 x 24 cm., 68 pp., approx. 24 color ills., Ltd. to 100 copies, bilingual text: Spanish / English

Traditional bound folder with screen printing and binder rings (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 30 x 2 cm., 78 pp., highly illustrated, text language: Spanish, Ltd. to 250 copies

Linen bound HC (with acetate dust jacket), 31 x 24 x 2 cm., 72 pp., color ills., text language: English

This small photo book with 'new' quotations - built on the foundation of Mao’s 'Little Red Book' - resulted from a first trip to China in 2012. DE MIDDEL reacted with her camera to whatever caught her attention, without any attempt to explain or analyze.

This new edition of the photo book classic 'Nicaragua. June 1978 - July 1979' by American documentary photographer and Magnum member Susan MEISELAS is a groundbreaking contribution to the literature of committed photojournalism with bonus material on DVD.

Re-edit, pb. 21 x 29,5 x 1,5 cm.,

HC with dust jacket, 21,5 x 32 x 1 cm., 88 pp., 39 b/w ills.,

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 27 x 1,5 cm., 64 pp., text language: English, Ltd. to 850 copies

The out-of-print volume 'Nein, Onkel: Snapshots From Another Front 1938-1945' contains snapshots of fun-loving, sexually inappropriate and work-shy elements of the German military machine, as well as the commonly accepted view of 'bad men in ankle boots'.

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 35 x 29 x 2,5 cm., 192 pp., 106 color ills., bilingual texts: German / English

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 22 x 31 1 cm., 52 pp., color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 300 copies

Book in spitral binding, 22,5 x 30,5 x 3 cm., 288 ills., b/w ills., text language: English

'Nationalfeiertag' by German photographer Katja STUKE, combines images from the Chinese National Day in Tiananmen Square with photographs from the commemoration of the 1989 massacre at the same place. Hidden are also texts from 1989 published in Hong Kong

2nd print run, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 32 x 2 x 24.5 cm. (9¾ x 12½ inch.), 232 pp. (28 double gatefolds), b/w ills., text language: English

The self-published photo volume 'Wet City / Islak Kent' Murat Yusuf SEN's contribution to the urban change in Istanbul. He contrasts the rapid development with the slow process of the collodion wet process from the beginnings of photography.

This monograph contains impressive pictures by Jürgen SCHADEBERG, black and white works of his entire oeuvre (1951-2005) from South Africa, Lesotho, Berlin, London, Malaga, New York, Botswana and again South Africa with the photos of Nelson Mandela.

The photo volume 'Chongqing Souvenir' Lukas BIRK is about how to bring impersonal images of violence to discussion. The people depicted in the book are dissidents who have been mounted in a book designed in the manner of private memory albums of the time.

HC in slipsleeve, 22 x 27 cm., 92 pp., 84 b/w ills., English / Russian, Ltd. to 500 numb. copies

'Deutsche Bilder' by Eva LEITOLF shows the crime scenes of attacks, the sympathizers in the environment as well as uninvolved spectators. Each location is provided with a researched text on the course of events and the legal, media & political reappraisal

The out-of-print volume 'In the Shadow of the Pyramids' by Magnum photographer Laura EL-TANTAWY appears to be a general account of the hopes and setbacks associated with the Egyptian revolution.But through the texts it gains considerable personal depth.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 16,5 x 21 x 1,5 cm., 72 pp., 48 ills., no text

HC with dust jacket, 18,5 x 24 x 2 cm. (9,5 x 7 in.), 108 pp., 65 duotone b/w ills., text language: English

In the photo volume 'Avenue Patrice Lumumba' the South African photographer Guy TILLIM deals with the urban architecture of colonial and post-colonial society in Africa. His focus is on their changes due to multiple shifts in power over the past 50 years.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23,5 x 19,5 x 2 cm., 128 pp., 74 ills., text language: English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25 x 26 x 2 cm., 108 pp., 54 color ills., Ltd. to 500 copies

'Photographers References No.1' exposes the creative processes of South African photographer David GOLDBLATT. It provides insights into his practice by revealing personal references and influences that have helped shape his distinctive visual language.

Spiral bound pb., 30 x 21 cm., 240 pp., color & b/w ills., 760 gr., text language: English

1st print run, pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 14 x 21 x 0,5 cm., 120 pp., 61 b/w ills., Ltd. to 50 copies

Gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 30 x 25 x 3 cm., 143 S., etwa. 135 zumeist vollseitige Farb- und S/W-Aufnahmen, deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

HC with dust jacket, 20,5 x 29 x 2,5 cm., 524 pp., b/w ills., German text only

Five pages, 42 x 56 cm., shipping as median folded pages, Ltd. to 1,000 copies (only 200 copies worldwide to buy)

HC with dust jacket, 24 x 30 x 2 cm., 256 pp., 121 color ills., text language: English - Ltd. to 500 copies

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 31 x 2,5 cm., 189 pp. + inner text with interviews, 93 b/w ills., text language: English

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 28 x 1 cm., 136 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20,5 x 30,5 x 1,5 cm., 46 color ills., no text - Ltd. to 500 copies

Trade ed.! Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued),

The photo book 'Wealth Management' by Carlos SPOTTORNO is about the world of the ultra-rich and their agents: about an allegedly better life in which money does not always bring happiness and in which the greatest luxury is invisible & inaccessible to all

Pb. (no diustjacket, as issued), 21 x 28,5 cm., 288 pp., 195 color ills., Englisch

'Josef Koudelka. Next: A Visual Biography' by Melissa Harris - not a photo volume - is the definitive and only authorized biography of Josef KOUDELKA, an intimate portrait of the life and work of one of photography’s most renowned and celebrated artists.

HC in accordeon style, 13 x 18 x 3,5 cm., 127 pp., 120 color ills., text language: English

The photo volume 'Odysseia' by Antoine D'AGATA deals with the undignified migration practices of European governments. It contains depressing photos and images from videos, as well as statistical data and texts by Bruno Le Dantec and Rafael Garido.

HC with dust jacket, 31 x 26 x 2,5 cm., 230 pp., 98 s/w ills.

Out-of-print photo volume 'False Positives' by Esther HOVERS is about intelligent surveillance systems. With algorithms built on anomalies, cameras are able to detect deviant behavior. The work relates to the question of normative behavior.

Cardboard box, within 32 pp. in newspaper style, 29 color plates + 1 tabloid, 29 x 38 cm., detailed informations in English, Ltd. to 500 copies

In the leporello-format book 'Galeb', Matija BRUMEN documents the interior of the state yacht with an eventful history during WW II, which was used by former Yugoslav President Josip Tito for representation (1952 to 1980) and is currently rotting unused.

SC with plastic dust jacket, 20 x 15 x 1 cm., 180 pp., color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 850 copies

This long out-of-print self-published photographic volume 'Euromaidan' by Vladyslav KRASNOSHCHOK and Sergiy LEBEDINSKYY was completed during the Ukrainian revolution. It documents the dramatic events on Maidan Square in the Ukrainian capital Kiev in 2014.

Pb., 20 x 26 x 1 cm., 96 pp., color ills., no text

Reissue HC (no dust jacket, as issued) with ONE signed C-Print (20 x 16 cm.), 28,5 x 23,5 x 1,5 cm., color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 numbered copies

In 'Congo (Belge)' follows Belgian Magnum photographer Carl de KEYZER with the help of an old travel guide from 1958 the relics of an organizational structure that once served the Belgian colonial power to effectively exploit the country and its people.

The text and photo volume 'Photomontage or Fake News. From Heartfield to Twitter' examines whether the re-location of the classic montage process in the age of social media have anything to do with utopias that have been lost and need to be reactivated?

Signed. 'Wahl Kampf Ritual' by Bernd ARNOLD examines German election campaigns by photographing politicans during their 'work': Brandt, Schmidt, Kohl, Schröder, Merkel as well as Strauss, Vogel, Rau, Lafontaine, Scharping, Stoiber, Steinmeier & Steinbrück

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 20 x 2 cm., 128 pp., 87 color ills., text language: English

'Die Kennedys. Portrait of a Familie' von Richard AVEDON führt uns zurück in den Januar 1961. Er enthält für die Modemagazine Look und Harper's Bazaar gemachte Fotos der Familie John F. Kennedys, der kurz zuvor zum Präsidenten der USA gewählt worden war.